Y10 moving into Y11 Summer Homework

GCSE ART AND DESIGN  - Graphic Design
Over the Summer complete work required to complete your Y9/10 folder.

You will be working on the theme Landmark

1.    Title page (optional)

2.    A3 mood board use pinterest to find drawings, printmaking, paintings, photographs, graphic designs, posters, and illustrations linked to your title.

3.    A3 artist mood board from the artists and designers listed in the information below and some of your own type the name of the artist under the art work.

4.    Visit a gallery or exhibition and create at least one A3 page based on your visit, collect brochures, take photos, make thumbnail sketches and brief notes about the art work you see and what you thought.

5.    Take at least 24 photos around the island of Landmarks, try to include interesting angles, take photos of the same place or object at different times of day, different position, backgrounds, use compositional guidelines - leading lines, rule of thirds, contrast of colour, texture, light and dark, close ups etc.

6.    Complete at least one artist research page and response.

7.    Produce studies based on your theme experiment with at least 3 different media (pen, charcoal, collage, acrylic paint, watercolour, oil pastel, mixed media.

8.    Use different papers, brown wrapping paper, wallpaper, canvas, cartridge, sugar paper, tissue paper.

Optional                                                                                                             

a) Manipulate the images you have taken, create photocollages, experiment with a digital manipulation software – download a free app on your phone and experiment with ideas, print up your photos and paint on top of them or extend them into a drawing.

b) Produce a final outcome either for this title or another outcome for the Y10 Organic project.

c) Create design(s) for a lino print, silk screen print or foam print based on theme.

d) 2^nd photos shoot take another set of 24 images.

The more you do in the summer the better– You have one term left on your portfolio which is worth 60% of your GCSE.   

Landmarks (Use the ‘Tate Exam Help’ and look at the images from the Tate website for the Landmark question you might also find interesting artist in other themes like Outline and Architecture - explore!)

Landmarks sometimes feature in the work of designers and illustrators.  Matthew Rice and Studio h create illustrations for organisations such as The National Trust, which have featured on book covers and on posters, tins, tote bags and packaging for sweets and biscuits.  They often produce stylized images of architectural landmarks in the form of woodblock prints or pen and ink drawings with added colour.  

Landmarks are prominent features in the environment. Artists, designers and craftspeople sometimes make work ,which is positioned as a landmark.  The anceient Nazca lines in Peru are scraped in the landscape. Anthony Gormley had made sculptures such as the landmark ’Angel of the North’ and ‘Another Place.’ Jenny Holzer projects statements onto the surfaces of important buildings creating temporary landmark installations.

Landmarks are often the most recognizable or well-known feature of a place or landscape.  In her ‘London Classic’ collection Niki Gorick uses photography to show something different about familiar landmarks. 

Graphics design company Soulful Creative make prominent urban installations. Prominent features in particular landscape are often described as landmarks.  Ancient landmarks such as standing stones can be seen in works by Denise Labadie and Paul Nash.  John Piper often included architectural landmarks in his paintings and Eleri Mills recalls familiar landscapes and images from her childhood in hand-stitched textile panels and mixed media paintings.

Vintage railway posters show local landmarks, which advertise the area. Local magazines like Style of Wight often feature Island Landmarks on or inside the covers. Travel illustrations for magazines often show Landmarks.

You will be expected to produce research, which could be used for the ideas below.  If you are going on holiday you may also take photos as part of your second photo shoot, which might then become another Landmark response.

a)    IOW Poster

b)    Front cover for the Style of Wight

c)     Illustration for a magazine article featuring the Isle of Wight

d)    Logo for an Isle of Wight product